McLuhan Monday Night Seminar, January 22, 1973: Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt

Описание: The McLuhan Institute presents the first of our series of 1973 Monday Night Seminars from the Marshall McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.

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MNS 1: January 22, 1973 --

From the archives of The McLuhan Institute, recovered from 1/4" reel-to-reel recording, Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt discuss themes from their recent book 'Take Today: The Executive as Dropout,' while the audience listens and asks questions.

Topics mentioned include: the Viet Nam war and future conflict, figure and ground, 'women's lib,' discarnate condition via electric media, the Global Village, effects precede causes, telephone, electricity and magic, Euclid and visual space, the alphabet, the videophone, Orwell and 1984, Marxism, W. K. Wimsatt, mimesis, hot and cool media, the instant replay.

The McLuhan Institute's vintage Monday Night Seminar Series:

MNS 1: January 22, 1973 -- premiers January 22, 2022
MNS 2: January 29, 1973 -- premiers January 29, 2022
MNS 3: February 5, 1973 -- premiers February 5, 2022
MNS 4: February 19, 1973 -- premiers February 19, 2022 - two tapes
MNS 5: March 5, 1973 -- premiers March 5, 2022
MNS 6: April 16, 1973 -- premiers April 16, 2022